Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751631AbZJTJ1z (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:27:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751579AbZJTJ1y (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:27:54 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:19589 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751547AbZJTJ1x (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:27:53 -0400 From: Andreas Schwab To: Michael Schmitz Cc: Jiri Kosina , Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-m68k , Tejun Heo , Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] [RFC] ataflop: remove buggy IRQ disable from do_fd_request() References: <10f740e80910100201n30367714uc57ec3c9c39b92af@mail.gmail.com> X-Yow: It's strange, but I'm only TRULY ALIVE when I'm covered in POLKA DOTS and TACO SAUCE... Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:24:44 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Michael Schmitz's message of "Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:51:08 +0200 (CEST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 850 Lines: 21 Michael Schmitz writes: > That. too :-) What I meant to say - the reason why someone chose to comment out > the original sti() wasn't really clear. I guess the reason for that particular > change has been lost in the pre-git or bk era. FWIW, this can be traced back to as much as the 2.0 era (1996). Going back further is difficult because a lot of files on ftp.uni-erlangen.de are corrupt. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/